Re: can someone please explain what this blog tagging this is all about?

<hjr.pythian_at_gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:4a81cb0f-ca6f-4f1b-97a7-15e52ac73ec7_at_v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 19, 9:46 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> hjr.pyth..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > There's no commitment. Only a mutual obligation to respect each other.
>> > The Oracle community broke that deal.
>>
>> No - some members broke "the deal", perhaps, if any.
>> I regard myself part of the Oracle community, and I cannot
>> remember having done anything to put you off.
>
> Really, I'm doing my best to end this thread and my contributions
> here! But if you keep on making points like these, I feel obliged to
> reply.
>
> And by way of reply on this occasion, I am just going to say: look
> around you. This very thread is eloquent on your "having done
> something to put me off", though I don't see or feel it in quite those
> personal terms. "Get over it and visit another blog aggregator" was, I
> think, your particular brand of pithy comment earlier in the piece,
> after all.
>
> You are, of course, entitled to that view. And I am equally reasonably
> (I think) entitled to interpret that as, at best, straight
> acquiescence in the vandalism perpetrated by others and which, to me,
> constitutes a 'deal breaker'.
>
>> No generalization, please! You yourself have always been
>> very exact with words.
>
> And on this occasion, too. Naturally, when one speaks of an aggregated
> entity like "community" or "society", there is always the trivial
> objection that specific individuals might have felt or acted
> differently. That neither Tom Kyte nor Jonathan Lewis played tag is a
> simple enough demonstration that the aggregate doesn't capture every
> individual nuance possible. So much is, frankly, obvious: it is the
> root of Thatcher's, 'There's no such thing as society just lots of
> individuals' claim, after all.
>
> Nevertheless, in so far as it's possible to talk about an Oracle
> community at all, the vast majority of that community took a view on
> the chain letter "game" that I take to be a breach of the mutual
> obligation of consideration and respect that was the basis for my
> making my work available. If you or some other reader wishes to make
> some sort of mental reservation after the fact along the lines, "But
> that didn't include me", then you are free to do so. Just so long as
> you realise that from where I'm sitting, there are no such
> distinctions to be drawn.
>
> Now: I really don't want to keep discussing this further here, and
> we've already had one complaint that it's all horribly off-topic. If
> you wish to elaborate or get me to elaborate on something here, please
> email me.

hjr, if you want him to shut up, just top post for once.... ;-)))

Shakespeare Received on Sat Jan 19 2008 - 12:31:24 CST